EXTRACT
Education is not only a human right. It is also tool for peacebuilding. In 2019, Reuben Garang conducted a feasibility study with South Sudanese refugee families living in refugee camps in Uganda. Garang is a Canadian citizen and a former refugee originally from South Sudan. He was a South Sudanese child soldier in the 1980s and he lived in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya before he was resettled in Canada. This project and report were fueled by Garang’s own personal experiences with periods of interrupted schooling both in refugee camps and in Canada. And it was fueled by the fundamental insight that education can serve as a tool for peacebuilding and mutual understanding between groups that have survived displacement and conflict.
SOURCE: Garang, R. Praznik, J. Silvius, R. Arnold, J. “Enhancing the Educational Outcomes for South Sudanese Refugee Youth: Laying the Groundwork for International Comparative Research.” The University of Winnipeg, 2020.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
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